He claimed asylum in the embassy while on police bail in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden, and ultimately the US.

Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to proceed while he remained inside the embassy.

Assange had also faced investigation for a second sex-related allegation in Sweden, which was dropped in 2017 because the statute of limitations had expired. He denies both allegations.

The Australian national is currently in jail in the UK after being found guilty of breaching his bail conditions.

Assange also faces extradition to the US after authorities charged him with allegedly conspiring with former US military analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a US government computer to obtain secret information in March 2010.

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I tried to post a link to an article which is published by this periodical. The algorithms just did not want to know! So why is there this feature and then..’Journalists must “stand together” against threats and highlight good work the press does.. says News Ul chief’
So where are the Press Gazette in defending Assange? Why is the newspapers like The Times not taking the UK govt to task? Why are not the owners of The Daily Mail urging their hacks to go bug phones in the USA and get Ass age released? ‘Cos you don’t believe in ‘free press’.. thats the reason..

The standard of mainstream reporting as typified by the above article is only matched by the political trickery being employed to vilify Mr Assange. Has the ‘team’ even bothered to research the prosecution history? Given this article is from the same source that believed Mr Assange had been hiding in the embassy, probably not.